Stumpfest is back for 2023, and as expected this mini-festival delivers a bunch of great acts worth checking out, including a rare appearance of the Danny Carey Trio. Stumpfest IX will take place over the 20th, 21st and 22nd of April at the Mississippi Studios Here’s what ChatGPT has to say about some of the other bands on the lineup: Elder is one of the most exciting and dynamic bands… Read More »Stumpfest 2023 lineup announced
Buzz and Mackie Osborne have featured on a recent episode of Making Ways: The Art of Music, during which Mackie confirms quite a few Tool re-issues are on the way. To paraphrase: I’m working on some really limited edition things for Tool, who are re-releasing all of their back catalog in a series of limited edition package. And they are also going to re-release their back catalog in kinda the… Read More »Tool back catalog re-issues on the way?
The final book in Blair Mackenzie Blake‘s trilogy Grumble’s Star (also including The Othering and The Paragon Junk) is out now for your reading pleasure! While I admit reading Blair’s musings may not be everyone’s cup of tea, there’s plenty of dense prose for those who enjoy that kind of thing to sink their teeth into. You can order it now on Amazon! Here’s a blurb: While searching for a… Read More »Grumble’s Star by Blair Mackenzie Blake
I’d forgotten about the Puscifer Existential Reckoning remix album coming out in March, but I was reminded of it by a neat little video produced by Maynard’s daughter for the track A Singularity (Re-Imagined by Carina Round). Here’s a reminder of who’s on it: Existential Reckoning: Re-Wired offers a track-for-track re-imagining of the 12 songs from Existential Reckoning. Puscifer band members Mitchell and Round, along with current touring musicians Greg… Read More »Existential Reckoning: Re-Wired coming in March 2023
A great new interview with Ænima and Lateralus producer David Bottrill has appeared on Youtube this week. He speaks with Warren Huart on the Produce Like A Pro channel, discussing a range of production related topics. Included in this is his work with King Crimson, Robert Fripp, Muse, Remy Zero and of course – Tool. Here’s the video: Some interesting information in the recording of No Quarter at around the… Read More »David Bottrill on producing Tool, King Crimson and more!
A couple of announcements from Puscifer today, the first being confirmation of a European tour in 2023. This is preceded by a few warm up dates in the US in May as they play a couple of festivals with Tool. We’re heading to Europe for the first time since 2016, and we’re doing a few U.S. dates ahead of the trek overseas. Tickets for all of the headlining dates are… Read More »Puscifer announce US & European tour dates + Existential Reckoning: Re-Wired
Great news for Ohio Tool fans this morning, with news that they will be joining the Sonic Temple Festival in Columbus. The festival, which takes place May 2023 features Tool on the 25th and Puscifer on the 27th: There’s some pretty decent acts on the bill, including Malevolence, Queens of the Stone Age, Knocked Loose, Deftones, Ho99o9 and The Bronx. Pre-sales via the Sonic Temple website kick off soon
It’s New Years Day here in Oz, and what better way to celebrate than with a few tunes! Here’s my top 10 for 2022, in some vague semblance of order: Author & Punisher – Krüller Tristan Shone uses an array of hand crafted machinery to generate his beautiful industrial noise. Krüller is one of the best sounding Industrial albums in a year with many great releases for the genre. As… Read More »Hellboys Top 10 albums of 2022
As the band promised earlier this week, the special edition Tool Fetus in Skull Maquette is now available to preorder. It is US$500 for the regular one, and US$1000 for a signed copy (though these have sold out it appears). More detail on this item from the Toolband store: Inspired by the 10,000 Days and Lateralus album artwork(s) by Alex Grey. Each collectible figure is cast in Polyresin, individually hand… Read More »Fetus in Skull Half-Scale Maquette now available
Tool have announced their first date for 2023 – the Welcome to Rockville Festival in Florida during May. Also joining them on the lineup are Puscifer (though not on the same day): There are some good bands on the lineup, though Friday and Saturday are pretty light on. I’d be checking out Queens of the Stone Age, Converge, Malevolence, Knocked Loose, Deftones, The Mars Volta and Deafheaven. Festivals are not… Read More »Tool added to Rockville 2023